Re: Patch: Remove gcc dependency in definition of inline functions

From: Kurt Harriman <harriman(at)acm(dot)org>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch: Remove gcc dependency in definition of inline functions
Date: 2010-02-10 09:00:52
Message-ID: 4B7275C4.8030304@acm.org
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On 1/18/2010 11:48 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On mån, 2010-01-18 at 16:34 -0800, Kurt Harriman wrote:
>> MSVC does warn about unused static inline functions. The warning
>> is prevented by using __forceinline instead of __inline.
>
> Hmm, but forceinline is not the same as inline. Are we confident that
> forcing inlining is not going to lead to disadvantages? Has this been
> measured?
>
> Is there not a setting to disable this particular warning. I read that
> MSVC has various ways to set that sort of thing.

On further investigation, plain __inline works alright, at least in
Visual Studio 2005. The warning for unused static inline functions
only comes up when compiling C++, not C. I've submitted a revised
patch, no longer using __forceinline.

Regards, ... kurt

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